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Topic: Favorite Xmas Horror

Gremlins, Silent Night Deadly Night, Tales From the Crypt - And All Through the House are my favorites and I'm trying to add more to the list. Going to watch Black Xmas(1974)Tales From the Darkside episode Seasons of Belief for the first time this Xmas. Black Xmas is supposed to be great of course as is the Tales From the Darkside episode. What are some of your favorites?

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I dont get why Silent Night Deadly Night is held in so high regard. Sure its a decent movie with some memorable and hilariously cheesy parts but the best christmas movie, no way. I respect ur guy's opinions though.

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^^^ No, I agree. I thought the movie was garbage at best. Horrible acting, laughable writing...just a bad movie. We watched it last year for Christmas Movie Night on Skype and all I could think while watching it was "Ch, ch, ch...ho, ho, ho..."

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The music in Silent Night Deadly Night is pretty great too. Something about that movie just is fun to watch. I can't wait to watch Black Xmas. I've been trying to hold off to get closer to the Holiday but I don't know how much longer I can last. Scrooged has some horror elements and is also directed by Richard Donner who was one of the producers/directors from Tales From the Crypt. Far from a horror film but still great and worth mentioning.

It doesn't get much better than Gremlins with the combination of the Goldsmith score and Dante's direction. One of the more magical movies ever.

Last Christmas I ordered and watched the Burning, Sleepaway Camp, and of course Silent Night Deadly Night. I was obviously in a slasher phase but the funny thing is, now Sleepaway Camp and the Burning feel like Xmas movies to me.

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^^^ I thought the movie was horrible in execution, but I could see they were trying to make it a bit more grim and disturbing, especially the scene where Billy's mom, though it wasn't explicitly shown, obviously had sex with him. I have the screenplay on my PC (along with the screenplay for the original, incidentally) and as written it's much less forced and heavy-handed.

If they'd taken a more subtle approach, it may have been a decent flick (IMO).

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I saw the Black Xmas remake in high school and I just remember hating it. That was ten years ago though so I will probably give it another shot one of these days. I appreciate movies a lot more than I used to.

I tried to get into Rare Expors a Christmas Tale last night but at about 30 minutes in I turned it off. Just couldn't get hooked.

Has anyone seen the Tales From the Darkside episode Seasons of Belief, or the Tales From the Crypt episode directed by Zemeckis?

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I don't think I need to say my opinion on the remake as I have here before, but what I can say about it is: the whole back story was a horrible idea (in my opinion). Like one of the many reasons Black Christmas (original) is scary is because we the viewers, have no idea who this killer is and what the motives behind what he is doing are. And then for a remake when you take that away, and make a sh*tty plot-line one, it hits the movie hard in a bad way.

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Finally watched Black Christmas last night. Great Slasher and it does appear to be the first of it's kind. It was a slasher in every way. All the scenes with the killer calling, and the last 30 minutes or so were just fantastic. Had some very legit scary moments and a very nice twist for such an early slasher film. Waaaay ahead of its time.